audiogeography
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Hello. I've been doing some expanding on my current set-up and was hoping for some advice before I dropped some serious cash on an improbable idea.
I'm currently running all of my mic's into the pre's on my MOTU 8 Pre and it's been amazing so far. I just picked up an ART Pro VLA, but I've been unable to use it since the 8 Pre doesn't have any line-in's (I knew this beforehand haha).
My original plan was to pick up a nice dual channel pre-amp such as the ART MPA Gold or an M-Audio DMP-3 but am really impressed by what I've read on the Octane so far.
So with this, I'd like to ideally run my kick and snare through the Octane which will be connected via ADAT to the 8 Pre and use the pre-amp outs to the Pro VLA Compressor and then back into the Octane through the line-in's.
I'd love to hear what anyone has to say on this (i.e. that's a terrible idea, that will work, etc.) and any suggestions to other possibilities. Thanks!
I'm currently running all of my mic's into the pre's on my MOTU 8 Pre and it's been amazing so far. I just picked up an ART Pro VLA, but I've been unable to use it since the 8 Pre doesn't have any line-in's (I knew this beforehand haha).
My original plan was to pick up a nice dual channel pre-amp such as the ART MPA Gold or an M-Audio DMP-3 but am really impressed by what I've read on the Octane so far.
So with this, I'd like to ideally run my kick and snare through the Octane which will be connected via ADAT to the 8 Pre and use the pre-amp outs to the Pro VLA Compressor and then back into the Octane through the line-in's.
I'd love to hear what anyone has to say on this (i.e. that's a terrible idea, that will work, etc.) and any suggestions to other possibilities. Thanks!